This 2016 has been, so far, particularly generous with us, considering the visibility of the planets. Last Feb., we had all the five,classic planets visible at a glance, providing a stunning planetary parade. It...
One month after our last observations, we wanted to image this important supernova again. The image above comes from the average of five, 60-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely collected with the PlaneWave 17″+Paramount ME+SBIG STL-6303E robotic...
Do you remember the famous Barnard’s Star? Probably yes. It is the star showing the highest annual proper motion (10.3″/year). In 2014 we did a few images of it, using some old plates from...
Here it is the second episode of the special series “Scientists Rock”, made for Asteroid Day 2016. At Virtual Telescope we provided the subtitles in Italian. Ecco il secondo episodio della serie speciale “Scientists Rock”, appositamente...
Here it is the first episode of the special series “Scientists Rock”, made for Asteroid Day 2016. At Virtual Telescope we provided the subtitles in Italian. Ecco il primo episodio della serie speciale “Scientists...
As we reported earlier today, This summer solstice is introduced by a Full Moon. Last time it happened was in 1967. The image below shows the Moon while rising, as seen from Rome, Italy....
Segui la diretta qui! Torna “Occhi su Saturno“, ormai giunto alla 5a edizione. Anche quest’anno il Virtual Telescope trasmetterà in diretta le immagini del meraviglioso Signore degli Anelli del Sistema Solare. L’appuntamento è per...
Next 20 June 2016, at 22:34 Universal Time, the Sun will reach its maximum declination (angular distance from the celestial equator): this will officially be the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. In that...
Later today, on 16 June 2016 at 13:54 UT, the 30 meters large near-Earth asteroid 2016 LK49 will make a close, but safe, encounter with the Earth, coming at 1.2 millions of km from...
Our Solar System is a much more fascinating and complex place than many of us believe. Only ten years ago, astronomers decided that Pluto was indeed not a planet, but a dwarf one, creating...
The amazing Asteroid Day is approaching and, as you know, the Virtual Telescope will offer several great online events, with amazing guests and more. But not only we want to offer our own activities...
After almost two months from our previous observations, at Virtual Telescope we wanted to observe comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko again, while it is getting fainter and fainter. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is the target of theESA Rosetta space mission. This...
On June 7, at 20:25 UT the 6-meters large asteroid 2016 LT1 will have an extremely close encounter with the Earth, reaching a minimum distance from us of 153.000 km, 0.4 times the mean distance...
Inspired by the idea to capture images of those dwarf planets still missing in the Virtual Telescope Project’s archives and after having success with Haumea last night, we wanted to try with (136472) Makemake....
– Comets C/2025 A6 Lemmon & C/2025 R2 SWAN 2025 flyby (20 Oct. 2025)
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